Registered Republican FBI Director Christopher Wray, whose appointment Trump tweeted by praising his "impeccable credentials."

Bush the Youngers Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (R-TX), a man who issued Justice Dept. briefs explaining the legal reasons torture is legal, but now tells Time magazine, "I have no confidence whatsoever in what’s going to come out of the House. Nunes seems to be part of the Trump team."

Former Tea Party House member and current far right radio host Joe Walsh (R-IL), who just wrote a WaPo op ed titled "My former colleague doesn’t seem to grasp what his job in Congress is" that continues with observations like, "The Nunes I knew was a purely partisan animal. When it comes to exercising good judgment and discharging his duties in service of the Constitution, he’s just not up to the task.

"He saw everything through a Republican vs. Democrat lens.... With Nunes, I found it was all about politics, almost never about policy.... So it doesn’t surprise me to see Nunes today, acting more like the chairman of the president’s reelection campaign than chairman of the Intelligence Committee. He wants to please whomever he sees as the person or people running the show.... And it’s pretty clear Nunes has decided his job is to protect Trump no matter what collateral damage results. How else do you explain his careless and dangerous rush to release his already infamous 'memo'?"

Walsh then goes on to quote fellow Republican (i.e. NOT Democratic) Senator John Kennedy of Louisianas statement that, "We can’t let the politics of the moment cloud our judgment," to which Walsh appends the observation "I agree. But it’s not Nunes’s style to care." Walshs most pointed observation begins his concluding paragraph: "My Republican colleagues would be screaming bloody murder if Russia, or any foreign government, was suspected of helping Hillary Clinton become president."

On that note, Senator John McCain (R former presidential nominee-AZ) released an official statement pointedly and accurately saying, in part, “The latest attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice serve no American interests – no party’s, no president’s, only Putin’s. The American people deserve to know all of the facts surrounding Russia’s ongoing efforts to subvert our democracy, which is why Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation must proceed unimpeded.... If we continue to undermine our own rule of law, we are doing Putin’s job for him.”

Registered Republican and Bush the Younger FBI Director Robert Comey tweeted that "All should appreciate the FBI speaking up. I wish more of our leaders would. But take heart: American history shows that, in the long run, weasels and liars never hold the field, so long as good people stand up. Not a lot of schools or streets named for Joe McCarthy."

Greatest irony? Not only are Comey, Mueller and Wray REPUBLICAN veterans of the BUSH administration, but accusing them of Wiretapping Gone Wild? Back when W was wiretapping everyone left and right without a warrant, he refused to stop until he thought it might cost him the presidency because, in his words, "I thought about the Saturday Night Massacre in October 1973," after three senior Justice Dept. officials threaten to resign to stop warrantless wiretaps; those three officials?

FBI Director Robert Mueller,
Deputy AG James Comey,
US Asst. AG Christopher Wray

On that note, can we finally stop pretending the FBI overstepped its bounds in surveilling ALREADY KNOWN RUSSIAN AGENT Carter Page once he joined the Trump campaign during an election the Australian Ambassador to the US had already warned the US government was being subverted by Russia? Or that a REPUBLICAN "Democratic witchhunt" tapped Michael Flynns phone, when the reality is that NO ONE TAPPED FLYNNS PHONE: The FBI tapped the RUSSIAN AMBASSADORS PHONE, so whose fault is it if tapes of calls on the Russian ambassadors phone include Michael Flynn talking to Russia during the campaign about ending sanctions?

How absurd is that?

"How do you know I dropped US launch codes off at the Kremlin if you were not ILLEGALLY FOLLOWING ME?!!"

"Um, we were watching the Kremlin: We never would have seen you if you had not shown up there...."

Oh, there is definitely a conspiracy, but not at the FBI: It and its loyal staff (among the few loyal Republicans left in DC) are simply serving the United States and its people, as they have bravely and consistently done under presidents of both parties—until the Manchurian President stopped them.